Ismail Riayat Shah

Ismail Riayat Shah was a general of the Atjehnese Sultanate.

Biography
Ismail Riayat Shah was born in the Banda Atjeh region of northern Sumatra in present-day Indonesia, then a part of the Muslim Atjehnese Sultanate. On 5 November 1859 he was defeated at the Battle of Banda Atjeh while attempting to repulse an invasion by the Dutch general Simon van Assendelft, who went on to subjugate Atjeh for the Dutch East Indies.